1. Social Bookmarking Rachel Lacy ITSCO rachel@itsco.org

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3. ITSCO’s Service Area

5. Share your favorite website

6. How do you begin research? Now

7. How do you begin research? Google Yahoo Alta Vista Specialized Searches-journals, ERIC, etc.

8. Media Literacy http://novemberlearning.com/ Teach Students how to use the internet safely Opportunity to show students how to critically look at social media

9. Collaboration in the Classroom: Working Together= Working Smarter

10. “global intellectual economy” - Time's Person of the Year: You by Lev Grossman

11. Web 2.0 I didn’t know there was a web 1.0…

12. The Read/Write Web…..

13. The Interactive Web The Social Web

14. Web 2.0 Social Software Picture

16. What does all that mean? Blogs Instant Messaging Internet Forums -Chat eLearning –online classes Massively Multiplayer Online Games Media Sharing Personals Social Annotation Social Bookmarking Social Networking Wikis

17. Social Bookmarking http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=x66lV7GOcNU

18. Lingo Social Bookmarking - using a web- based tool to save and share Internet bookmarks Social Annotation - using a web- based tool to annotate on webpages Tagging - the process of assigning keywords for classifying and sorting

19. Why use social bookmarking in the classroom? Post assignments Store and organize research

20. Collaborate

21. Maintain coolness factor with students Allow students to show “true” self in a school setting

22. Educational Uses Share resources with students, colleagues, and parents (they can even subscribe using RSS)

23. Educational Uses Class/group sets up an account and everyone contributes (tag for projects)

24. Educational Uses Track the websites experts find important Teacher can review and comment on resources that are bookmarked by students

25. Educational Uses Students rate and review each other’s bookmarks to help decide the usefulness of resources

26. Educational Uses Share links to current news items that relate to classroom discussions Share an account with teachers in your department or grade level

27. Educational Uses Subscribe to accounts of other teachers who teach your content Diigo- Create assignments where students annotate webpages

28. What is Social Annotation? Diigo (dee’go) is the big social annotation site. Virtual highlighter and digital sticky notes highlight & comment directly on a webpage Easily extract and compile all your highlights across multiple pages for a given subject. Keep your annotations private, share them with groups you belong to, or make them public for everyone to view. Exchange viewpoints on any specific area of a webpage - great for collaboration or debating an issue.

29. Twitter www.twitter.com Commoncraft video (if time allows) Blog posts of 140 characters or less.

30. Twitter in the mainstream Rick Sanchez on CNN Local news channels

31. Twitter Discuss developing news, debates, events, conferences

32. Twitter Ways to use Twitter in the classroom Track a word Follow a professional More http://academhack.outsidethetext.c om/home/2008/twitter-for- academia/ http://academhack.outsidethetext.c om/home/2008/twitter-for- academia/

33. Sources www.facebook.com http://www.socialmediatoday.com/ SMC/69411 Social Bookmarking & Annotation ppt by Lainie McGann www.lainiemcgann.com www.lainiemcgann.com Personal photos and screenshots

34. Rachel Lacy ITSCO rachel@itsco.org www.rachelatitsco.pbwiki.com www.rachelatitsco.blogspot.com Follow simonra on Diigo, Twitter, and Del.icio.us

35. Questions? Thank You Th